Replace premailer

[derekrushforth]

We should replace premailer with something that's fully compatible through node. Requiring gems to be installed is kind of a mess.

[garrettdimon]

Looks like 'emailify' is a Node-friendly alternative. Not sure if it has feature parity, though.

[derekrushforth]

Emailify looks awesome but their Github page says it's not actively maintained.

[derekrushforth]

I guess all we're really looking for is this:

• CSS inlining
  • Must preserve style tag
• Generate text versions
• Remove CSS selectors that aren't being actively used in the HTML template.(premailer didn't do this)

Pluses but not deal breakers:

• Set cellpadding, cellspacing, width table attributes from within CSS declarations.
• Compatibility warnings - A nice option for some people.

There may be standalone grunt plugins that do each of these things.

[garrettdimon]

Found this, but since you know more about the intricacies, it's probably easier for you to evaluate whether it will do the trick to replace premailer. It's under Automattic, and it seems actively maintained.

https://github.com/Automattic/juice

[landsman]

Did you found any better solution?

[dprensha]

It doesn't look like juice will generate text versions of an email. But there is a library out there that will do this:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-text

Side question, why is it necessary to inline in the build process when Postmark does that for us server-side? If we left that for the server then only a html-to-text tool would be needed.